Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The willow is too close to the house.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Books are my comfort food!

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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  3. 3.

    demkat620

    Iggles won and my Phils are winning.
    Life is better than yesterday.

    Jeebus, the Phils had like eleventy billion errors last night and PSU got beat at home by Iowa.

    WTF?

  4. 4.

    Surreal American

    Oh sure. Plenty of open threads, but no open exchange of ideas. You and your Artificial Laws (according to BOB).

  12. 12.

    Rook

    Just finished watching Brett Favre prove me wrong. Maybe I am going to end up watching the Vikings this year. An 80 yard drive with no time outs with just over one and a half minutes left. DAMN!

  14. 14.

    Ked

    I picked the Steelers -3.5 today.

    Was 6-3 in the early games, so I guess that means the Steelers have (better than) a 67% chance of winning.

    …and the Colts are +3! +3!!! God I wish I was in Vegas this weekend instead of in a few weeks.

  18. 18.

    debit

    @Rook: I KNOW! I had resolved not to watch or care, but damn that was an incredible end to that game. I commented on twitter that I used to hate it when Favre did that shit in the last 30 seconds, but now I rather like it.

  22. 22.

    James K. Polk, Esq.

    Man, Favre is something else. I don’t think he is going to stay healthy, though. That line is going to let him get crushed one of these games…

  23. 23.

    Demo Woman

    My game day started at the local Publix to pick up a few snacks. Unfortunately the person next to me in the dairy section was my representative. Since we ended up in the same check out line, I changed lines. Tom Price is not my favorite person. The only interesting aspect was no one vocally recognized him. Not sure if any one else was glaring, though.

  24. 24.

    J.

    Jets and Giants win again! Can you say 3 – 0?! Woohoo!

    Oh and for those of you who want to watch two games at the same time and cannot get to a sports bar, here is a primer on how to turn your bedroom into a sports bar. It includes fascinating tidbits (in the comments) like how to toggle the mute key so you don’t have to always listen to the really annoying guys on Fox.

  28. 28.

    apistat

    @Simonee: Yeah, that was tough to watch, I really thought the niners were gonna pull it out.

    Despite that, I know it’s a bit early but I really think the city of San Francisco should look into erecting some statues of Singletary throughout the city.

    I’m not asking for anything too fancy, just a little something that people can worship at the feet of and an area for blood sacrifices.

  29. 29.

    Andy K

    @Ked:

    I picked the Steelers -3.5 today.

    The way the Steelers’ D is playing right now, -3.5 yards might be the Bengals’ total offensive output for the game.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Farve pulled off a win. Suck on it, Minnesota fans.

    No worries. Favre will inevitably falter or get injured, retire and un-retire again. It’s kinda like Groundhog Day, only with footballs.

  32. 32.

    debit

    @Simonee: I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, he did that to us in the Dome on a regular basis far too many times than I care to remember.

    @James K. Polk, Esq.: They don’t seem to protect him very well, do they? That was my gripe when they signed him; he’s old for a QB. Talented, yes. But old. He’s going to get hit one of these games and get hurt. Also, what happened to bringing along your young talent? Spend a few years and take your lumps like the rest of the teams. Stupid new stadium wanting owners.

  36. 36.

    Tom

    Palmer seems to think all of his receivers are 15 feet tall today. Parker is running well but where is Mendenhall? I want to see him start doing some things.

  37. 37.

    Simonee

    @apistat:

    Yeah it was tough. The officiating was pretty awful too.

    Regardless, we are DEFINITELY leaps and bounds ahead of the 49er team lead by fast talkin’ Mike Nolan, and it’s all because of Singletary.

  39. 39.

    Andy K

    What’s the deal with the Seahawks’ day-glo jerseys? Looks like the entire team is doing their community service for DUI offenses.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    @Andy K:

    Is it retro-uniform day throughout the league? I got the Titans-Jets game, and there I was watching the Houston Oilers play the New York Titans. Almost had me reaching for a nonexistent Blatz beer.

  45. 45.

    Andy K

    @Steeplejack:

    50th anniversary of the AFL, so expect to see it when all of the original teams from that league play each other.

    But I have no idea why the Seattle Seahawks (born an NFL team in 1976) are wearing those eyesores…Well, other than the fact that they’ll be able to sell a few of them at NFL Properties prices. It might be the ugliest uni I’ve seen, other than that Iggles’ throwback from a couple years ago- which looked as if some first grader yakked up his cotton candy.

  48. 48.

    Demo Woman

    I totally agree the Seahawks uniforms are awful. Maybe it’s a ploy so that the other team can’t regroup because they are to focused on the uniforms.

  52. 52.

    Ked

    @Andy K:

    Someone explained on one of the interminable pre-pre-pregame shows a couple years ago that the flourescent green/yellow has always been the Seahawks tertiary color, shown as pinstriping and outlining on their normal unis. And a couple years ago the league decided to allow third-color jerseys to be worn a couple times a year, just to milk the clothing sales. What I’m not certain about is if the Seahawks are forced to do it, or if it’s an optional program.

    I gotta say, though, that as frightening third-color jerseys out there go, the Seahawks is only middling-bad. The Bears have a bright-orange uni they wear a couple times a year which really does look like prison jumpsuits, and then there’s the green jerseys which Notre Dame wears on super-duper-special occasions and always, ALWAYS lose in. Weis has trotted them out every year, I think, which tells you how good his judgement is.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @shirt 5:12 pm

    You are forgetting Robert Novak.

    Novak, Kristol, Safire. That’s the three in that set.

    @Demo Woman: don’t know whether you follow baseball, but just about when a person would pretty much write off the Braves for the season they start getting interesting again. I’ve had my hopes dashed and heart broken so many times I’m almost afraid to care TOO much, but dayum, they’re why I love the game (well, them and the Cubbies).

  58. 58.

    Andy K

    @Ked:

    Yeah, not a fan of the orange Bears’ jersey, or the Lions’ black jersey, either. I do like Notre Dame’s green jersey’s though, and I remember how they’d win almost every time they wore them in the ’70’s.

  62. 62.

    debit

    Oh dear. That was an unfortunate interception for the Steelers. And then a very bad snap for the Bengals.

  64. 64.

    Demo Woman

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m hoping that they are only 1 1/2 back after today. Colorado appears to have the tougher schedule but they play teams that are already in the playoffs.

  65. 65.

    Andy K

    @Steeplejack:

    Proud to say that I was at Lambeau for the playoff game with the Seahawks in January of dickety-eight when the latter looked as if they had been under the graders. GO, PACK, GO!

  66. 66.

    KG

    Miami is now playing their third string quarterback in the third quarter. They’re probably going to be running the wild cat a bunch now because they also have Pat White who can throw the ball.

    Meanwhile, the Chargers aren’t able to score, so they’re tied at 3 half way through the third quarter.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    @Ash Can:

    Yeah, I know, but it’s long past its heyday.

    I can remember seeing Blatz TV ads while watching the Sunday NFL game (in B&W) in Illinois in the ’60s. Also Hamm’s (“the beer refreshing,” to an Indian tom-tom beat).

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    @SiubhanDuinne, @Demo Woman:

    Got my fingers crossed for the Bravos too. Lived in Atlanta from ’81 to ’05 and went to a lot of games, both at the old stadium and the Ted. Now my local teams are the Nats and the Orioles. Say no more.

  70. 70.

    Bubblegum Tate

    I guess the Steelers got Sweeded on that pass. Develop some freakin’ hands, would you, Limas? KTHXBAI!

  74. 74.

    Steeplejack

    @Andy K:

    LOLOLOL! Hilarious. I tried to find a Blatz ad for my last post but couldn’t. Didn’t think to look for a Hamm’s ad, but you nailed it. “The beer refreshing” and the tom-tom beat are indelibly etched in my brain, and I loved that goofy bear.

    And that looks like some hot date at 0:42 with the dude pouring the Hamm’s for his special lady. Classy.

    Seems like the Blatz ad I remember was a sort of Three Musketeers animation because the beer came in “bottle, can and keg.” But maybe that was Pabst.

    Now I’m getting all misty and nostalgic for the days when my childhood heroes, the Packers–Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Jerry Kramer, Herb Adderly, Ray Nitschke et al.–would beat up on the New York Giants and the reviled Dallas Cowboys.

  76. 76.

    Andy K

    @Steeplejack:

    Now I’m getting all misty and nostalgic for the days when my childhood heroes, the Packers…

    I was born near the end of that run, so I have no memories of the Pack until the 10-4 team of 1972, which was my only memory of a divisional championship until he-whose-name-shan’t-be-typed joined the team in the ’90’s. James Lofton was about the only guy to count on in the interim.

    But, as an elementary school kid, I read everything there was to read about the history of the team- and there’s always been quite a bit out there- to the point where I knew the Lombardi teams better than my dad.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @Andy K:

    I was a grade-schooler just outside Champaign, IL, from ’60-’64. Should have been a Bears fan, and I did like them, but something about the Packers got to me. Who knows what it is with kids? I loved the receivers–Boyd Dowler, Marv Fleming, Bob Jeter, Max McGee–and of course in Starr they had a future Hall of Famer throwing to them.

    Also loved Johnny Unitas and the Colts. And the Giants teams with Y.A. Tittle. Then we moved to Texas in ’64 and I followed the Cowboys more closely. I liked them a lot, now that I think about it, but those memories are overshadowed by the “America’s Team” douchebaggery of the ’80s and later.

  79. 79.

    Ash

    @Steeplejack: Heyyyy, I’m from Champaign, funny to see another one.

    I could’ve chosen the Bears, or the Packers, or the Rams, or the Colts. And I went with the Patriots. People hate me.

  82. 82.

    JenJen

    “Hear that Bengal growlin’, mean and ang-a-ree!
    Here he comes a prowlin’, lean and hung-a-ree!
    An offensive brute, run, pass, or boot,
    And defensively he’s rough!
    Tough!
    Cincinnati Bengals!
    That’s the team we’re gonna cheer to vic-to-ry!
    Touchdown Bengals!
    Get some points up on that board
    And win a game for Cincinnati!”

  83. 83.

    burnspbesq

    @Steeplejack:

    At least the Oregon Ducks wore throwbacks against Cal yesterday. There must have been something really peculiar in the water at Nike when their regular unis were being designed.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    ¡Caramba! Bengals just scored with 14 seconds to go. Who’s scheduled for Cole suicide watch later, if needed?

    (I wrote the above quite a while ago, and apparently it didn’t go through. Wonder if the Steelers’ calamity crashed the server in Juiceland.)

  91. 91.

    Bill H

    What’s the deal with if you put your third-string quarterback in the game then your second-string quarterback can no longer play? And if that is the case, why would Miami leave their #2 on the sideline and put their #3 in the game? Especially given that they don’t need a passer, since the Chargers cannot stop the run?

    I really enjoyed how Rivers came out from halftime all grimacing and injured, with Volek warming up, and then threw three completed passes for a total of 120+ yards.

    Fortunately, Maimi decided they needed to match that; so they quit running and started passing. The Chargers can’t stop the pass, either, but Miami’s #3 quarterback can’t pass.

  93. 93.

    geg6

    Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck. I blame John Cole. Just because. Now I’m going to sulk and soothe my bruised soul by watching Ken Burns and all that lovely land that we’ve all partnered on here in the US. Pretty pictures and lyrical descriptions of nature’s wonders will bathe my bitterness away. I hope.

  96. 96.

    JenJen

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    It should also be noted that the Steelers and the Lions have identical records.

    This!!

    You know, if it weren’t for losing Week 1 in spectacular, heartbreaking Bengals fashion to the Broncos, I’d actually start really believing in my beloved team again. I’m almost there…

  97. 97.

    ironranger

    @geg6:
    Nat’l Parks 1st part is great. Looking forward to the rest.
    Can’t totally escape into the lovely land, not when it is pointed out several times how close our parks were to being sold off to private interests. We don’t learn a damn thing in this country.

  99. 99.

    Jessican

    @soonergrunt

    I don’t know who you are, but as a Colorado native and a person married to an OU grad, I have to say, you sir or madam are FTW with all your comment.

    Go Broncos!
    Dallas will be the real test.

    @Steeplejack

    Thank you. Wish I could take credit for that, but I stole it form a twitter friend.

    Today was awesome except for those pesky Chargers winning

  100. 100.

    Ed Drone

    I’m jealous of all this football talk. My city doesn’t have a professional team — I live in Washington, DC.

    Ed

  103. 103.

    Ed in NJ

    @Bill H:

    Unless a team declares all QBs on the active roster, the #3 QB is by rule the emergency QB. If he is used before the 4th quarter, the #1 and #2 QBs cannot re-enter the game.

  106. 106.

    DBrown

    As a Raven’s fan and before everyone jumps on the Steelers, I’ll wait until after a Ravens/Steelers game is over before adding any comments. Until then, the Steelers can have off games and are still a team to beat.

  108. 108.

    Woodrowfan

    Washington loses* and the Bungals win by defeating Pittsburgh! Wow. life IS good.

    * yes, I live in the DC area now but I can’t stand the “skins, their a**hole owner and their racist name…

  112. 112.

    JK

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    Nothing is so sweet as a YANKEE PLAYOFF DEFEAT.

    Stay cocky Grand Panjandrum. Enjoy the Yankee wins while they fast.

    When the Playoffs roll around, the Yankees are GOING DOWN. You can take that to a bailed out bank.

  117. 117.

    soonergrunt

    @Jessican:
    I too am a Native Coloradoan (Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction) and married to an OU grad. I am stuck here in flat, empty Oklahoma, missing my mountains everyday.
    The job, the wife, and the cheap house are here, so here is where I get up in the morning and look east and west at nothing.

  119. 119.

    asiangrrlMN

    I am the glummest fan evah of a 3-0 team. Sigh. Fucking hate Brett Favre.

    @Brachiator: Yeah, what you said. Favre will do something incredibly stupid somewhere down the road that will cost the Vikes a playoff game, but it’s ok because he’s like a kid out there who’s just playing for the love of the game.

    Fuck.

    Cole! You alive? Hanging in there?

  120. 120.

    AhabTRuler

    I can’t stand the “skins, their a**hole owner and their racist name…

    To be entirely fair, the team had the racist name long before it got the asshole owner.

  122. 122.

    Anne Laurie

    @Ked:

    Hey, no fair editing out my extra exclamation points! ! !

    If you really need more than one, putting a space between each of them tricks WordPress from resorting to whatever graphical plug-in it keeps failing to implement. See?

  126. 126.

    handy

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Generally I don’t dabble in depression art but I know from personal experience that you can’t go wrong with The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, especially if you’re all alone on a late night and have had a few bourbons in your system.

  128. 128.

    Svensker

    @asiangrrlMN:

    By the way, I’m looking for some music that will make me cry. Suggestions?

    Well, it depends on what kinda reason you’re looking to cry. And what kinda music you like.

    Bach’s “Ich Habe Genuch” is th most acceptingly sorrowful music I know. Sometimes unbearable, other times, just what the doctor ordered.

    Joe Bonamassa does some really sad blues — If Heartaches Were Nickels is one o’ my faves.

  131. 131.

    Comrade Darkness

    @Woodrowfan: yes, I live in the DC area now but I can’t stand the “skins, their a**hole owner and their racist name…

    Come now, their mascot is no worse than that of the Mobile Darkies, the San Francisco Slanteyes, or the Brooklyn Hooknoses.

    Oh, wait . . .

  132. 132.

    burnspbesq

    @Ed Drone:

    You don’t have much in the way of college teams, either. Both the Twerps and the Wahoos are going to suffer the ultimate embarrassment this year: they are going to lose to Duke. I suppose you could root for Navy. And you do have that fabulous new cross-town rivalry, Georgetown vs. Howard.

    You’re even screwed on the D3 level: Catholic isn’t what it was a few years ago.

  133. 133.

    burnspbesq

    @Svensker:

    Yeah, both NY teams are 3-0. What’s the over/under on the time remaining before some idiot on WFAN or in the Post declares a Subway Super Bowl to be inevitable?

    And where are all those Jets fans who were rending their garments when they drafted Sanchez? This Trojan wonders where y’all went.

  136. 136.

    Corner Stone

    @Comrade Darkness:

    Come now, their mascot is no worse than that of the Mobile Darkies, the San Francisco Slanteyes, or the Brooklyn Hooknoses.

    That may or may not be the most perfectly un-pc trifecta of awesomeness evah.

  137. 137.

    Corner Stone

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m not sure why you’re so morose all the time?
    For me, if I need a good cry, I just think about losing my teddy bear. Does it every time.

  138. 138.

    Svensker

    @burnspbesq:

    And where are all those Jets fans who were rending their garments when they drafted Sanchez? This Trojan wonders where y’all went.

    I thought it was an exciting pick, but thought he shouldn’t start. Was worried he’d get killed and lose all his confidence. Happy to say I wuz wrong. ;)

  139. 139.

    Brachiator

    @asiangrrlMN:

    By the way, I’m looking for some music that will make me cry. Suggestions?

    Don’t usually think about music this way, since for me the best “sad” songs are still a consolation (yep, like Johnny Cash).

    But how about a little Lyle Lovette, North Dakota

    youtube.com/watch?v=N2v6SOY1aEc

    And of course, there is Billie Holiday, Gloomy Sunday. There’s a reason it’s also known as Hungarian Suicide Song.

    youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4

  141. 141.

    Comrade Darkness

    @Corner Stone: Thank you. I was trying to spread it around sufficiently.

    On a side note, my tried brain tried to “invent” a Blahcity Braves and I thought, THAT won’t work for my example.

    And since three is the magic number I left off the Fighting Drunken Irish . . . Oh, dang. I did it AGAIN.

  142. 142.

    Corner Stone

    @asiangrrlMN: Nah, Ted’s still here. Thanks though.
    Actually, since my Texans lost after an endzone fumble in the last two minutes – I guess I do need a hug after all.
    Probably not as bad as Cole does though. His Stillers suck. They lost to the Bengals.

  146. 146.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    So, did Lily gnaw off her cape in disgust? Did Tunch shed all over the futon in protest? Inquiring minds want to know!

  159. 159.

    Corner Stone

    @asiangrrlMN: And really I only have one more thing to say about this:
    Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it. Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.
    Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.

  161. 161.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Did I say I wanted funny?

    No, you didn’t say you wanted funny. Because Franken is now your senator, I thought you might appreciate seeing one of the highlights of his previous incarnation.

  163. 163.

    Jay in Oregon

    @handy:

    My first exposure to that song was, oddly enough, in the season one finale of the now-canceled Terminator series.

    That song was used to such great effect that I had to find a copy of it.

  168. 168.

    Jay in Oregon

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Not too bad. Working on myself. I haven’t spiraled down in a while.

    Reaching out to my wife and hoping she’ll learn to reach back again. Which she is…

  170. 170.

    Jay in Oregon

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My biggest flaw right now is not having patience. I feel like I have to do something to “fix” things.

    I just need to give her time, patience, and attention. And hope that it works out.

  171. 171.

    Chinn Romney

    I’m really loving the quotes that the NY Jets players are coming out with. “We’re the best!” and “We are the team to beat”.

    Great stuff. It’s September and the Jets are as clueless as evah!

    Jets fans, show us your TEATS!

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